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...Richard S. Ross, dean of the School of Medicine and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore...
...same time some consumers are willing to spend lavishly on everything from Perrier to Porsches. Spending oases still exist, for example, in conspicuous-consumption California. Ross Gilbert, owner of Beverly Hills Mercedes-Benz, has plenty of customers willing to put down $45,000 for a new 450 SLC. In the first four months of the year, Gilbert sold more than 55 new cars, a record. Says Bijan Pakzad, the owner of a prosperous men's boutique on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, where shirts can cost $180: "The stores that will do well will be the very, very expensive...
Only a few of the top moneymakers, such as Steven Ross, chairman of Warner Communications ($3.9 million), won their seven-figure pay packets solely through salaries and bonuses. Lee Iaccoca, chairman of Chrysler ($1.3 million), qualified for the group by the $1 million he got from the ailing automaker to compensate for the severance pay he lost upon leaving Ford. Most earned their keep by hitching their fortunes to their companies' performances on Wall Street and cashing in on previously granted stock options. For many of the $1 million earners, stock-related income accounted for more than half...
...NOTEBOOK: The absence of fresh-man star Darlene Beckford hampered the tracksters' efforts, but Beckford enjoyed a productive weekend nonetheless, winning third place in the Betsy Ross Invitational Mile at the Penn Relays Saturday. Beckford's 4:39 placed her behind only world-famous athletes Jan Merrill and Francie Larrieu... The tracksters' next test comes at the EAIAW Championships at Pittsburgh this Saturday and Sunday...
Roily Curtis Ross, Calif...